• Title
  [Captain Eber Bunker, ca. 1810 - miniature portrait]
• Call number
  MIN 58
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1810 (dated by costume)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  432120
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 watercolour on ivory miniature in gold frame with glass front, gold casing on reverse, knotted rope-like design around outside of frame, and a loop for hanging at centre top of frame. Brown coloured human hair, plaited into a chain with five clasps or joins accompanies the frame. - 6.9 x 5.4 cm., portrait, inside frame (sight) - 7.4 x 6 cm., frame, 88.5 cm. chain
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eber Bunker was a master mariner and landholder who has been credited with being the "father of Australian whaling". In 1791 he visited New South Wales as master of the "William and Ann", accompanied the "Lady Nelson" in the "Albion" to establish the Derwent settlement in 1803. Bunker brought his family to the Colony in the "Elizabeth" in August 1806 and became a landholder at Bulanaming, Bankstown and the Hunter Valley. -- Reference: Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825, State Records New South Wales, Online Jan. 2004
• Scope and Content
  The male in this portrait wears a white waistcoat and white linen ruffled shirt each with stand collars, a white stock at neckline, and a navy blue wool double-breasted jacket with brass buttons.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  It is difficult to ascertain whether the chain made of hair is contemporary with the frame.
  Accompanying the portrait is a non-contemporaneous bakelite rectangular label with black print, "Capt. Eber Bunker. Presented by Miss S.J. Cartwright"
  Digital order no:Album ID : 825688
  This item has been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Engraved on reverse of frame, "Captain Eber Bunker / 1760-1836 / The first of the Whalers / Arrived New South Wales 1791. / Presented by / his great granddaughter / Sophia J. Cartwright / to The Mitchell Library"
• Name
  Bunker, Eber, 1761-1836
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  hair (people)
  miniatures
  picture frames
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October - December 2004)

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